Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

OUT REMAINS IN the uedEtS VI Lie COu-
querors," you attribute to the north
feeling akin to brutal, and assign the
northern people position in the scale OF
humanity only little above that OF the
savage. Quite probably the great mass OF
the northern people will not notice the
Injustice you have done them; but, be-
yond doubt, the south will see and appre-
ciate the skill with which you invoked
northern brotherhood, and in the same
breath babe the south remember
that they had been conquered" and
that at this late date after the war their
Hcopquerors'' hate them.
Mr.. Grady, let US calmly reason togeth
er for moment over this "prejudice OF
war" alias hatred-reason together like
sensible men and philosophers, honestly
intending to get at the truth. In the first
place, note thee things-thst the war
ended nearly twenty-five years ago; that
about two-thirds of the people who lived
during the war are now dead, and
that the present generation is mostly
made up of people who were infants dur
ing the war, Of were born after its close.
In the second place, note that about one
half OF the present generation Of men IN
the north are members Of the Democratic
and therefore not to be charged with
| war.natred Of the southern people. Hence,
il follows that your charge is wholly
aimed st the Republicans Of the north.
NOW, l ask yO", Mr.. Grady. as thought
ful man and a philosopher, why should
; northern X publiCans, or any northern
men, Who were in manhood during the
war, hate the conquered" south? In
i; E
tual instance OF "COuqueTOr" hating the
''conquered," and yet letting the "cOr-
quered" go as free and unsCathed as the
"ConquerOr?' On the contrary, is Ii not
known to you and to all men that 1t Is
human nature for the conquered" to
hate the ':ouQueror?" Way, then,
should you have closed your noble speech
with SO nphiloeophical, so improved,
SO groundless, so unfraternal charge?
And further, on what ground can it De
said that the young men OF to-day, who
were children during the war, or were
born afterwards, are swayed by "preju-
dice of war; against the south? The
only possible ground for that charge, if 1t
be made, is that they have been educated
to it-have actually had "the prejudice of
war; against the south lnstllIed into
them through their childhood and youth,
and have come to manhood in full-blOWn
hatred of people among whom they
have never passed an hour, and of whom
they know next to nothing. Nj. Grady,
are you willing to make such charge as
that? | doubt.
The fact Is, Mr.. Grady, and you ought
to know it il you do not, that OF the peO
pie now living in the north, who were ten
years old and upward when the war broke
out, the great mass have ceased TO think
much about the war, except as dark and
bloody reminisCeqCe; and those born
since the war really know very little
about it, and care still less. Whatever
of northern antagonlsm there IS
to the south as the south is not product
of the war, and has not the least
flavor of war nate, in it. But there is in the
north widespread active, resOlute, and
abiding hatred of the attempt Of southern
politicians to make the minority south
the ruler OF the United States. To &C
COmplish that mad ambition the st nth is
obliged to resort, and does openly resort,
to methods and means which are, and
ever ought TO be, revolving TO the sense
of justice of all patriots, north and south,
as they are repugnsnt to sill right views of
constitutional and legal obligation.
Finally, Mr.. Grady, let me tell you this
plain truth, that "the solid SOUTH is, this
hour, the great obstacle to that "brother
hood whose spirit demands absolute
equality of political and civil rights for
all men; which refuses self-exaltation at
the expense of q brother-man's degrade
ton; and rejects sectional domination as
fatal TO patriotic devotion to country.
When the south ceases to be solid for
itself, gives up the undemocratic idea of
minority rule, and periodically devotes
herself to the good of the whole country,
then nobody in the south will care to hear
about the northern "prejudice of war;"
and nobody in the north will care to in
quire, except historically, into the cir
cumstanCes and feelings which, uGhappily,
once made q "solid south" possible.
Then, once more, we shall be united in
the bonds of true American brotherhood,
never more to be sundered. The north
offers no impeachment to that glorious con-
summation to-day, but would honestly and
heartily hasten its coming. Can you, Mr..
Grady, say as much for the south?
CT DRAKE.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. y, 1856.